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"Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others."
"I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better."
"You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can."
"If it weren't for God's grace, you and I wouldn't be able to live for even one more minute."
"We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own."
"She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it."
"I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical."
"I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry."
"It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
"Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds."
"We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact."
"If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide."
"I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive."
"For me, I'm able to use my gift to glorify God. That's what it's about for me."
"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever."
"Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it"
"I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly."
"Some girls on the street don't have a lot of money, but they have the best style. It's not about being able to buy everything in the store."
"Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors."
